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This is the same with us. We only take up 22" of the bridge if on the outside. We only attempted to Triple once (Queen City Quarter Finals) But we put our heavy end on the outside and just tipped. We also are able to Line up and shoot 3 balls in 3 seconds (now thats 1717 kind of stuff ;) ). We are hoping to be a pretty good competitor, Cant wait to Compete with all these amazing teams, all at one competition!

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I'm going to guess that most robots can hang quite a bit off the edge. That being said balancing with 2 longs is always harder than 1 long. Personal experience. GTR East QF1-2 1075 and 4307, no balancer with 2 long bots, however 4307 was not even close to max and it went smoothly. Northville QF's SF's and F's 5 triples with 2 wides, 67 and 3656, using 67's arm... Extremely smooth. Troy finals 2, 217(long) and 2604 attempted to triple, we failed to do so. MSC 2054 (long) and 245 it worked but wasn't pretty and we failed to do this twice. Finally Newton 118 and 2194 both wide, utilizing 118's stinger and our fangs, 4-6 with 2 driver errors keeping us from 6-6 (QF 1-1 half of us were going for a double).
Experience has shown me that our 19" needed on the bridge is a little more then that depending on the speed of a balancer as the rotational momentum of the robot tips it down and sometimes off the bridge (problem solved by using 2 balancers).

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This is definitely true with 340. Around 12" overhang! Check out the video below!

http://youtu.be/Ar6CMCwlW5k

Matt

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How many teams will not have the ability to use their drivers that the had during the regular season? Or will choose to use other drivers for expiriance purposes?

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Very excited for IRI this year! I hope to see New England teams 2168 and 125 do as well as they can! I personnally see an alliance led by 67 (The HOT Team) and 341 (Miss Daisy) taking it all. This is going to be alot of fun to watch and interesting to see who prevails!

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The EH Team is gonna win it all. ;)

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+ one mysterious backup bot

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Perhaps with another Canadian to continue the Eh Team? :cough:772:cough:

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Oh what I would do for this to happen...

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I notice that 269 and 292 are mentioned twice. Does anyone know which drive orientation they are?

EDIT: 624 is missing from this list, but they have accepted as per http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...23&postcount=9

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269 is wide.
292 is long.
624 is long.

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thanks

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With 772, 781 and 907 attending in addition to the original "Eh Team" there will be no shortage of Canadian representation :cool:.

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Here's another fun question...
You seeded first, you have 0 scouting, all you know is how the teams did in the regular season... who do you pick?

My top 3 are 67, 118, and 341. Being a long bot I wouldn't take the risk of 1114, 2056, or other great long bots.
67- Worked with and won an Northville together, great team, amazing robot, and from Michigan!
118- Worked with and won Newton together, got along great, make another run at gold?
341- never worked together or even saw their robot in person... but Masters of hybrid could make all the difference.

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I'm finding it sort of strange, especially after the speed and success of the Eh Team, that everyone still seems to doubt two long bots and one wide can triple as effectively as two wide and one long...